Health Care and Wellbeing e-newsletter for September 09

CfPS Newsletter for Health, Care and Wellbeing Champions September 2009

Care Quality Commission to lead workshops at all National Networking Events

The Care Quality Commission will be holding workshops at all the autumn networking events on working with local scrutiny committees, entitled  “A New Regulator for Health and Social Care; What Every Health and Social Care OSC Needs to Know.”

The events are at Taunton 15th October, Manchester 21st October , London 18th November and Leeds 24th November 2009

The programme aimed at all members of Health Care and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committees will also include

High impact scrutiny – knowing what matters. 
Closing the gap – how can scrutiny make a difference?
Eating the elephant – making scrutiny of commissioning manageable.

Full programme information and on line registration

 Health Scrutiny Programme News :

Events, Innovative Scrutiny; Joint Regional Reviews, Healthy Accountability Forum.

 Challenging times and change ahead for local health services? 

The Independent Review Panel reminds HOSCs that they can seek their advice when facing NHS reconfiguration challenges.

 Tackling health Inequalities – developing the role of overview and scrutiny 

A new project being undertaken by the CfPS

Web Digest for September 

The Future of Social Care Services Green Paper; Health Select Committee reviews Commissioning; NHS Confederation 'Dealing with the Downturn' on meeting the most severe financial challenge current NHS leaders are likely to face.

 
Scrutiny Events

 Parliamentary Seminars: A free annual event for Chairs and Vice Chairs. Book now.

Conference 2010: The Brewery, Barbican, London June 30.

Publications  

“Take your partners”   Shortly to be published by the CfPS , this joint publication with the IDeA, sets out the potential remit of overview and scrutiny committees in ensuring that their local partnerships are focusing on what matters, and working effectively together to achieve local priorities.

New to the Library 

Effective Partnership Working - Preventative Service for over 50s
The recent ambitious and comprehensive review by Swansea City Council.

 Warwickshire Joint Review of Winter Deaths and Fuel Poverty The first completed scrutiny review from last years round of CfPS funded Innovative Scrutiny  Reviews on the theme of Healthy Communities.